The Heavenly Demon Cult’s Strongest Maid - Chapter 196
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Chapter 196
Hissssss!
Purple poison mist centered around Sa Gun-myeong began to devour the space.
Yunnan Poison Valley was a group that dealt with strange insect poisons.
Since the colorless and odorless poison hadn’t worked earlier, this was certainly a poison with much stronger toxicity.
Whoooosh―
From Dang Yeong-ryeong’s body, the characteristic green poison mist of the Sichuan Dang Family spread out softly.
“Hah!”
Sa Gun-myeong launched a surprise palm strike.
It was a purple poison palm, the same color as the poison mist.
Crash!
When Dang Yeong-ryeong countered with her poison palm, poison energy spread in all directions with an explosive sound.
“Everyone fall back!”
At Baek I-gyeom’s sharp command, the Dark Four and Cheol Hyeol-dae retreated in perfect unison.
With the space widened, Dang Yeong-ryeong could step more freely as she faced Sa Gun-myeong.
Bang bang bang!
Boom!
She passed by Sa Gun-myeong’s left and right sides, took position behind him, then stood in front again.
As if searching for weak spots, she poked at Sa Gun-myeong’s purple poison mist with her green poison mist.
It looked like psychological warfare, but that wasn’t the reality.
Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap―
Wherever her footsteps touched, poison pellets were secretly laid.
The bean-sized poison pellets contained her secret poison technique, Soul-Chasing Death Poison.
“Not bad. Your poison is quite refined.”
Sa Gun-myeong genuinely praised Dang Yeong-ryeong.
“However.”
His gaze turned behind Dang Yeong-ryeong, toward the Dark Four and Cheol Hyeol-dae.
Even in this desperate moment, she never let her poison flow in their direction.
Should this be called truly befitting of the righteous faction?
“Move aside.”
Suddenly Sa Gun-myeong lunged forward.
His purple poison mist rapidly expanded and invaded Dang Yeong-ryeong’s poison mist.
The two energies began to bite and tear at each other as they mixed.
“…!”
Dang Yeong-ryeong’s eyes widened.
She realized that Sa Gun-myeong was intentionally mixing the poisons.
The two poisons met and eventually transformed into something like black fog.
Hissss―
What this meant was clear.
Now the black poison mist had escaped from both Dang Yeong-ryeong’s will and Sa Gun-myeong’s will.
Dang Yeong-ryeong’s eyes became bloodshot as she glared at Sa Gun-myeong.
Sizzzzle―
The black poison mist, formed when extreme poison met extreme poison to become absolute poison, melted everything it touched.
The most important thing when handling poison was control.
Poison that escaped control became a double-edged sword from that moment, unable to distinguish friend from foe and killing everything.
Sa Gun-myeong had brazenly created such a thing.
“Kekeke!”
Sa Gun-myeong burst into evil laughter as he fired palm strikes wildly.
Those palm strikes were aimed at the black poison mist that had escaped control.
Bang!
Boom!
The palm strikes exploded and pushed the poison mist back.
‘This was his goal from the beginning!’
Behind Dang Yeong-ryeong were the Dark Four and Cheol Hyeol-dae. If she dodged, the poison mist would completely engulf them.
His plan was to use her subordinates as hostages to bind her feet.
“Get as far away as possible!”
Bang bang bang!
Crash!
Sa Gun-myeong fired palm strikes relentlessly like fanning flames.
The black poison mist advanced even faster toward the Dark Four and Cheol Hyeol-dae.
“No! Stop!”
Dang Yeong-ryeong urgently stopped Baek I-gyeom and Jeong-seon from firing palm strikes following Sa Gun-myeong.
“If we join in too, the poison mist will explode and scatter in all directions! If the poison spreads, it’ll be a disaster!”
At Dang Yeong-ryeong’s cry, Baek I-gyeom and Jeong-seon were startled and withdrew their energy.
“Leave this to me and stay back!”
Dang Yeong-ryeong bit her lip and stood before the approaching poison mist.
On the opposite side, Sa Gun-myeong was looking at Dang Yeong-ryeong mockingly.
‘Cheon Su-dok-hwa, what will you do now?’
Poison that had escaped control was a disaster, as Dang Yeong-ryeong said.
Unless one was immune to all poisons, the only answer was to run away.
‘Of course, there’s a way to make escape impossible.’
Sa Gun-myeong fired a palm strike to flip the black poison mist once more.
This time the poison mist exploded upward.
“…!”
Dang Yeong-ryeong’s pupils shook.
Fear appeared in her eyes for the first time.
The poison mist scattering into the sky would slowly settle with the dew during the night and cover the civilian houses. What would happen after was too horrible to imagine.
‘There’s no choice.’
The Poisonous Flower Locking Prison Formation wasn’t complete yet, but if she waited longer, the damage would grow.
To prevent the worst situation, there was no other method available right now.
Thud!
Dang Yeong-ryeong forcefully stepped on the formation corner to awaken the formation.
Crack!
Crackle crackle!
As her energy spread through the ground, the Soul-Chasing Death Poison pellets scattered on the floor exploded in a chain reaction.
Points connected to form lines, and lines touched to form surfaces.
A barrier made of poison instantly shot up and trapped the black poison mist and Sa Gun-myeong.
“What!”
Sa Gun-myeong, who had been triumphant, couldn’t hide his bewilderment at the sudden formation that arose.
‘The Sichuan Dang Family even had such a poison formation?’
For him, this was an unthinkable move.
Formation techniques from the Sichuan Dang Family, not even the Jegal Clan?
As the master of Yunnan Poison Valley, it was quite a blow to his pride.
The emanating energy was also extraordinary.
The biggest problem was that he was trapped in the Locking Prison Formation together with the poison mist.
Sizzle―
The clothes that touched the black poison mist began to melt away.
“Argh!”
This was truly a case of being caught in one’s own trap.
‘Huh?’
Sa Gun-myeong, who had been looking around while pondering how to break the formation, caught sight of Dang Yeong-ryeong’s strange behavior.
She was moving around the formation’s perimeter urgently, as if being chased by something.
‘I see!’
Seeing this, Sa Gun-myeong immediately grasped the situation.
The formation wasn’t perfect.
‘In that case.’
Sa Gun-myeong quickly scanned the Shwaeok-jin.
“Hahaha!”
Laughter escaped him naturally.
He quickly discovered flawed and sloppy parts that made his earlier panic seem embarrassing.
He drew up his poison power from his danjeon.
And without a moment’s hesitation, he launched a palm strike toward the barrier blocking his path.
Bang!
Crumble―
One part of the incomplete Shwaeok-jin collapsed helplessly.
“Uhahaha!”
Sa Gun-myeong burst into laughter as if he had gained the whole world.
“You thought you could stop me with something like this!”
The Shwaeok-jin could no longer harm Sa Gun-myeong.
He forcefully released black poison mist upward through the collapsed barrier.
“No!”
If the poison mist escaped outside, it would be the end. There were too many civilian houses nearby.
Dang Yeong-ryeong leaped into the formation to directly confront Sa Gun-myeong.
Whoosh!
At that instant, a dark purple energy burst out from within the black poison mist, aiming for Dang Yeong-ryeong’s chest.
If she blocked the palm strike like this, she could avoid injury, but the poison mist would scatter into the sky.
Her deliberation wasn’t long.
She protected her chest with internal energy in preparation for the strong impact while forcibly pulling down the poison mist.
Or rather, she tried to.
“…!”
Suddenly, a masked man burst out, wrapped his arms around Dang Yeong-ryeong’s waist, and pulled her outside the Shwaeok-jin.
Thud thud thud thud thud!
At the same time, dozens of wooden stakes struck down like lightning from midair.
They were all weapons engraved with the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams.
Whooooo!
The broken formation quickly repaired itself and even pulled the black poison mist that had been scattering into the sky back inside.
As all the poison mist was sucked in as if time was reversing, the formation closed and the Dokhua Swaeokjin was finally perfectly completed.
“Just like last time, it seems I have to be the one to complete it this time too.”
“S-Strategist Gong?”
The masked person was none other than Gong Pae-cheon.
Dang Yeong-ryeong stammered while being held in his arms.
She had never even dreamed that Gong Pae-cheon would appear.
“What if someone sees us…”
“That’s why I wore a mask. Is that strange?”
“No.”
“I suppose even a mask can’t hide these looks.”
“…It might be better with it covered.”
“What?”
“Pfft!”
Gong Pae-cheon’s eyes behind the mask gazed down intently at Dang Yeong-ryeong’s laughing face.
“…Why are you looking at me like that?”
“It reminds me of the old days.”
“The old days when you were being chased by Salmak?”
“More precisely, the sight of you scattering throwing knives with your hair damp with sweat fluttering in a place that was neither Sachen Island nor Qinghai.”
“Sweat?”
Dang Yeong-ryeong frowned as if asking why he would remember such a thing.
“I dreamed of that every night until you came looking for me at headquarters 17 years ago.”
“…So you’re saying you don’t dream of it anymore.”
“Now I have different dreams each time. Though Lady Dang still appears in them.”
“Really? What kind of dreams?”
“…It would be better if you didn’t know.”
For some reason, Gong Pae-cheon seemed flustered.
He hastily separated Dang Yeong-ryeong from his embrace and bowed.
“Then I’ll see you at the inn.”
Gong Pae-cheon disappeared like the wind.
“Special Agent Dang!”
“Are you alright?”
Just then, Baek I-gyeom and Jeong-seon came running.
“Of course I’m fine. Let’s hurry to the Namgung Family!”
Sa Gun-myeong was fighting a desperate battle in the Shwaeok-jin. They needed to hurry since they had lost time because of this.
Deliberately erasing the brief encounter with Gong Pae-cheon from her mind, Dang Yeong-ryeong leaped forward with all her might.
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